The model of key competencies of the "revolutionary commander" based on the views of the leaders of the Islamic Revolution of Iran

This study was conducted with the aim of achieving a model of key competencies of the revolutionary commander in the military organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran according to the statements and correspondence of the leaders of the Islamic Revolution of Iran (Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamenei).

This research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of the nature of the data. Research sources: Twenty-two volumes of Imam Khomeini's (as) Sahifa as the official document of Imam Khomeini's (as) lectures and the contents of the information base of the Office for the Preservation and Publication of Grand Ayatollah Khamenei's works are the most comprehensive official source of his lectures. To achieve the mentioned pattern, the theme analysis technique was used in the analysis of research data. After searching and accessing the relevant statements and correspondences and studying them, open coding was performed in the research sources. Data collected using thematic analysis technique and using the features of Atlas T software. IP, version 8 was analyzed.

After removing duplicate content, merging, summarizing and categorizing the codes, 65 basic themes, 20 central themes and 5 general themes were extracted from 1450 primary codes. Finally, five basic components were identified as the overarching themes of the research and a network of themes and a competency model were designed and mapped.

This study showed that from the perspective of the Imams of the Islamic Revolution, revolutionary commanders need to be prominent and privileged in five components: religiosity, popularness, rationality and wisdom, the power of the soul and the greatness of the soul.